Staff Software Engineer

Google; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's Staff Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India, will own outcomes and decision making, tackling ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders. You will lead design and implementation of major, scalable systems across multiple teams, set coding and testing standards, and mentor engineers.

The role requires deep technical leadership, the ability to navigate complex trade-offs, and close collaboration with product, UX, and legal teams to ensure reliability and maintainability at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience mentoring executive engineers.
• Ability to raise the technical bar and define standards for coding, testing, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of major, highly scalable systems across multiple teams.
• Drive technical goals and alignment across complex, matrixed organizations and shape the long-term product and technical roadmap.
• Identify and resolve foundational issues and own the technical outcomes of critical business initiatives.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Staff Software Engineer

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Company: Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience mentoring executive engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to raise the technical bar across the broader organization and define the standards for coding, testing strategies, and deployment processes, while leading complex, system-wide design and code reviews to ensure reliability and maintainability at scale.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of major, highly scalable systems across multiple teams. Be responsible for making strategic, long-term technical decisions that navigate complex trade-offs involving global scale, high availability, and system extensibility.
• Drive technical goals and alignment across complex, matrixed organizations. Manage highly ambiguous problems and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (e.g., Product Manager (PM), User Experience (UX), Legal, and other engineering organization) to shape the long-term product and technical roadmap.
• Identify and resolve broad, foundational issues rather than just single-system bugs. Dive into complex architectural bottlenecks, optimize large-scale infrastructure, and own the technical outcomes of critical business initiatives.

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